Browsing ECO Working Papers by Author "SAPIENZA, Paola"

Title:Civic Capital as the Missing Link
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Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO; 2010/08Abstract:This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For ...

Title:Long Term Persistence
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Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO; 2008/30Abstract:Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were ...

Title:Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange?
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Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO; 2007/42Abstract:How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question
by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First,
we document that this trust is affected not ...

Title:The Cost of Banking Regulation
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Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO; 2007/43Abstract:We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to
study both the effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was
more restricted ...